Dr. Marc Becker is a professor of history at Truman State University. Specializing in Ecuadorian Indigenous issues and politics he is an author of several books dealing with Ecuador. His recent book “Pachakutik – Indigenous Movements and Electoral Politics in Ecuador” is an excellent study of politics in Ecuador. He has been kind enough to visit with us on May 18, 2011, to discuss his perspectives of the referendum vote in Ecuador on May 7, 2011. The interview is 43 minutes long and you will clearly hear interesting commentary about the referendum and current politics in Ecuador.
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The administration of Jaime Roldós bus terminal in Guayaquil, reported to police that visitors to the terminal have destroyed sections of the bathrooms and stole items including toilet paper. Bathrooms have also been damaged by significant graffiti. The terminal has two bathrooms on both the ground and first floor. As many as 30,000 people a […]
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“Before 2007 we had a fleet of aircraft that operated from about 35 years. From this year, almost all aircraft have 10 years average life (…) One of the most modern air fleets in Latin America, “said the official. He explained that this was achieved thanks to strict security policies implemented by the Government. Read […]
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The Ministry of Tourism, through a press release said that arrivals of foreign visitors to Ecuador grew by 8.24% during the first quarter of 2011, from 339,025 in 2010, 366,960, this year. Statistics show that visitor arrivals to the country was higher in the month that recorded a revenue of 105,541, followed by April 87 […]
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The effects of time restrictions on the sale of alcoholic beverages and began to take its toll the liquor sector. The industrialists speak of a decline in sales volume of about 11% nationally. In liquor stores, however, argue that economic losses close to 30% and 40% of revenues. Since 18 June, the government banned the […]
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The company Strategic Electricity Corporation of Ecuador (Celec EP) and ISAGEN SA ESP, Colombia, develop, plan and implement the geothermal project bi-Chiles-Cerro Tufiño Black, on the common border, the state agency reported yesterday Ecuadorian Andes. Read Article
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The environment of the city of Zamora is threatened due to run jobs with heavy machinery on several fronts on the banks of the River Nambija. Those who work there belong to the San Carlos mine area. Everything suggests that there would be conducting illegal mining. In response, Byron Gonzalez, director of Environment Zamora Chinchipe, […]
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The National Electoral Council (CNE) of Ecuador decided today to extend the count in the coastal province of Guayas for 72 hours and, therefore, expected to announce on Friday the final results of the referendum of May 7.The CNE provided to deliver the results on Thursday, but the extension requested by the Electoral Council of […]
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Ecuador’s president says he’s prepared to submit to a lie-detector test to prove he didn’t accept money from Colombia’s FARC rebels in his 2006 election campaign. Read Article
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The latest official data from Ecuador’s referendum vote shows a slim margin in favor of the ‘No’ vote on two of the most controversial questions which relate to the judicial system and the media. Critics say the questions seek to curb press freedom and judicial independence. Read Article
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Confiscation of Over 16,000 Rounds Believed to Be Headed to FARC Ecuadorian site eldiario.com.ec , reported the capture of 4 individuals (2 of them former members of the military) during an operation part of “Operación Relámpago” (Operation Thunder) today at 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. The suspects were apprehended at 3km de la via Santo […]
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The release Tuesday of a “dossier” of Farc files, which were supposedly seized by the Colombian government in 2008, is truly a non-event. The report, by the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), appears to be an attempt by hawks in the US and the UK to perpetuate, using “black propaganda”, the failed policies of […]
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President Correa denied receiving money from the FARC for his campaign in 2006, according to a statement released yesterday, which referred to an analysis of computer equipment of former number two of the Colombian guerrilla, Raúl Reyes. Read Article
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Magnitude 4.8 Date-Time Thursday, May 12, 2011 at 02:36:05 UTC Wednesday, May 11, 2011 at 09:36:05 PM at epicenter Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones Location 1.731°S, 81.594°W Depth 32.4 km (20.1 miles) Region OFF THE COAST OF ECUADOR Distances 128 km (79 miles) SW of Manta, Ecuador 147 km (91 miles) WSW of […]
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Business Transactions Between FARC and Correa and Deposit of $400,000 Per report by eltiempo.com , a study of archives by the International Institute of Strategic Studies (IISS) has revealed two drafts that FARC and associates made to Jorge Brito to aid the Correa campaign in 2006. In a document reviewed by the IISS, the Electoral […]
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Ten ballot questions devised by leftist President Rafael Correa in what his opponents call a blatant power grab all appeared headed for victory Sunday, albeit by modest and even slim margins. Read Article
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Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa claimed victory in a referendum on government and social reforms that critics have charged is a thinly disguised attempt to consolidate more power. “The Ecuadorian people have triumphed. The truth has triumphed,” he said Saturday on state-run Ecuador TV. Read Article
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The banana, a plant which is threatened by the Black Sigatoka, will be extinguished within about ten years, if a genetically modified hybrid is not created to combat this fungus that endangers plantations worldwide, according to Emile Frison, researcher of the International Network for the Improvement of Banana and Plantain (INIBAP). Read Article
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Journalists in Ecuador are demanding that the administration of President Rafael Correa keep its hands off the press and respect freedom of expression. Read Article
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Volcano activity near Banos is currently high and covering Banos with ash. Here is video from Saturday.
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While known to be in relatively small numbers, here is a video from 2008 depicting Skinheads in Ecuador.
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Ecuador business confidence fell to a two-year low on concern a conflict with the U.S., the South American nation’s biggest trading partner, may hurt exports and decrease foreign investment, Deloitte & Touche LLP said. An index measuring company confidence in Ecuador fell to 76.2 last month out of a possible 250, its lowest since April […]
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MEXICO has just pulled off its once-a-decade miracle of quizzing 112m souls about their lives and habits. The census results, presented to journalists today, form a mountain of data that your correspondent will mine for stories over the next few weeks. In the meantime, here are a few findings that jumped out at him, in […]
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Once again, Ecuador finds itself deeply divided leading up to the country’s sixth popular referendum scheduled for Saturday, May 7. The current campaign exemplifies the ideological fragmentation currently afflicting Ecuador, pitting the country’s President Rafael Correa against an array of groups with varying political profiles. Wide-ranging opposition exists against a pro-vote among the indigenous population, […]
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Ecuadoreans will vote next week in a referendum on a package of reforms that a fractured opposition say will give leftist President Rafael Correa too much power over judicial appointments. Read Article
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LESSONS FROM A QUECHUA STRONGWOMAN: IDEOPHONY, DIALOGUE, AND PERSPECTIVE – Recorded author interview with Dr. Janis B. Nuckolls – (Recording Time – 54:41) Purchase Book – Lessons from a Quechua Strongwoman: Ideophony, Dialogue and Perspective (First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies) Using the intriguing stories and words of a Quechua-speaking woman named Luisa Cadena […]
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Ecuador’s national indigenous organization announced last week that is filing a legal complaint against the government, including President Rafael Correa, for complicity with “genocide” against indigenous people in the Amazon. Read Article
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In the heat of a one-day police revolt over benefit cuts last September, President Rafael Correa’s government took the extraordinary step of ordering all TV channels to broadcast the signal of state-run television. Read Article
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A trial scheduled for this week in the case of an Ecuadorian police official charged with attempting to assassinate the country’s president was abruptly canceled because the judge went on vacation, according to a court document. Read Article
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The seemingly constantly restless Tungurahua had a significant explosive eruption, prompting evacuations of schools and villages near the volcano. Tungurahua produced a 7 km / ~23,000 foot ash plume, which is a bit surprising considering that last report from Instituto Geofisico in Ecuador from January 2011 reported “activity at Tungurahua continued to decrease and ash […]
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A courier in Cuenca, Ecuador tipped off the Counter Narcotics Police when he became suspicious of the weight of ten guinea pigs he had been given to ship to Brooklyn, New York. An investigation of the ten roasted guinea pigs (called cuy in Ecuador) revealed 365 grams of liquid heroin and 1,140 grams of cocaine. […]
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Magnitude 4.8 – PERU-ECUADOR BORDER REGION 2011 April 25 22:22:19 UTC Versión en Español DetailsSummaryMapsScientific & TechnicalEarthquake Details This event has been reviewed by a seismologist. Magnitude 4.8 Date-Time Monday, April 25, 2011 at 22:22:19 UTC Monday, April 25, 2011 at 05:22:19 PM at epicenter Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones Location 2.873°S, 77.408°W […]
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Last Friday at 20:30 hours, 7 armed assailants committed a home invasion while a family was at home according to ElUniverso.com at the development of Oasis del Pintor. This development is located on Punta Blanca on the Ruta Spondylus at entrance number 11 on the highway Santa Elena – Manglarito. The assault took about 20 […]
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In the heat of a one-day police revolt over benefit cuts last September, President Rafael Correa’s government took the extraordinary step of ordering all TV channels to broadcast the signal of state-run television. Correa survived the revolt — rescued from a besieged hospital by army commandos — but the government’s action fueled accusations that the […]
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“Despite all I had confidence in the police, but after that I know two of them are guilty of the death of my brother, can not tell who is right or who’s bad,” says Rodrigo, Marco Samaniego Lara’s brother, killed in June 2010 allegedly by active agents of the Judicial Police of Pichincha (PJP). Read […]
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The National Secretary for Communication, Fernando Alvarado, denied that the book has been banned Big Brother, the booth of Ecuador, during the Book Fair which takes place in Buenos Aires. Read Article
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In a journey that advance this Easter humanitarian agencies in the border area between Colombia and Ecuador, was found in Lake Agrario, the province of Carchi and Esmeraldas, a large number of Colombians fleeing the armed conflict. Read Article
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Crimes reported – April 9, 2011 through April 15, 2011 646 criminal complaints filed with prosecutors offices – police 122 property crimes 6 homicides 6 aggravated robberies 5 express kidnappings 10 rapes – sexual assaults 27 robberies 16 burglaries 42 vehicle thefts 9 business premises robberies Remainder – misc. Source: ESPOL –
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Red Alert in the Jose Joaquin de Olmedo Airport in Guayaquil, on Wednesday afternoon allowed the detention of Basque Jhon Jairo López, alias’ Nico ‘, considered by Colombian police as a ringleader of the criminal organization’ Cordillera ‘, Read Article
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Chevron Corporation (NYSE: CVX) has filed an amended complaint in its lawsuit in federal court in New York seeking to block enforcement and recognition of a judgment entered against the company in Lago Agrio, Ecuador. The amended complaint cites newly discovered evidence that the Lago Agrio plaintiffs’ lawyers and consultants, at a minimum, provided clandestine […]
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The Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE) is planning to withdraw on Saturday 23 April the baton to the president, Rafael Correa, by an act to be held in the parish Zumbahua, in the province of Cotopaxi. The ceremony will also include the presence of several organizations in Cotopaxi, assembly members, leaders and the […]
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Norma Delgado, mother of President Rafael Correa angrily denied the use of his image in the No campaign. The afternoon of Wednesday April 20, through social networks like twitter, circulated a photo collage of Ms. Norma Delgado, wearing a shirt with the legend “Mijo this time”, alluding to the upcoming electoral process in May. Read […]
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The Ecuadorian government publicly reiterated its commitment to turn its Amazon regions into the country”s most prosperous, as President Rafael Correa announced during a tour of Orellana province. Read Article
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Magnitude 4.7 Date-Time Wednesday, April 20, 2011 at 22:27:59 UTC Wednesday, April 20, 2011 at 05:27:59 PM at epicenter Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones Location 3.872°S, 79.484°W Depth 97.2 km (60.4 miles) Region NEAR THE COAST OF ECUADOR Distances 32 km (19 miles) WNW of Loja, Ecuador 85 km (52 miles) SE of […]
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The president of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, said in an interview that justice in a country is “priceless” and “No justice, no development”, in reference to the restructuring of the judicial system in the Andean nation to be held through a referendum on 7 May. Read Article
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The Ecuadorian Government and the Directorate of Civil Aviation (DAC) signed today the agreement American Corporation to build the world’s first green airport on Baltra Island, Galapagos, which details the Agency Andes.The agreement was signed at a ceremony held in the Plaza San Francisco Santa Cruz Island, in the presence of President of the Republic, […]
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A network of human traffickers was broken up by the national government. Six people who headed (five Pakistanis and one Ethiopian) were deported because they were wanted by the Interpol, national media reported, the Agency detailing the Andes. Read Article
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According to secret reports sent to Washington by the embassy in Ecuador there are 4 “terrorist groups.” The data contained in one of the secret information he got the news agency Wikileaks over Ecuador and were filtered from the State Department. Read Article
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PRESS RELEASE R32/11 OFFICE OF THE SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR FOR FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION EXPRESSES CONCERN REGARDING THE EXISTENCE AND APPLICATION OF CRIMINAL DEFAMATION LAWS AGAINST PERSONS WHO HAVE CRITICIZED PUBLIC OFFICIALS IN ECUADOR Washington D.C., April 15, 2011. – The Office of the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression express its concern over the existence and […]
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On Tuesday of this week, according to the El Universo, three Colombian women were detained for failing to declare money they possessed over $10,000, at the Mariscal Sucre International Airport in Quito, Ecuador. The money laundering unit of the police received information from a confidential source that the women were carrying undeclared money. The trio’s […]
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Maria del Pilar Mite, 35, was killed with a machete in her sleep and before her sons, 18 and 10 years. The crime occurred at 04:00 yesterday in the block 8 of the cooperative’s Orchards in the north of Guayaquil. The main suspect in the murder would Agapito Chamaidán Gabriel Bohorquez, 42, exconviviente of Mite, […]
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After a year of research and monitoring, staff of the Administrative Department of Security, DAS, captured 15 people who were involved in smuggling of migrants in the cities of Ipiales, Pasto, Cali, Bogota, Medellin and San Andres. Among those captured in this operation, is a former DAS official who was assigned to the Group Migration […]
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The Prosecutor General’s Office of Ecuador will investigate the veracity of a recently publicized WikiLeaks cable that claims Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa received campaign funding from the FARC and Venezuela, El Espectador reported Friday. Read Article
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Assailants disguised as electrical workers. Deceived 73 year old homeowner, stormed home. Four men posing as electrical workers in the Orchid neighborhood of Guayaquil. The offense took place on Monday morning at 10:30, when the four thieves arrived at the house in a van with a logo of the electrical company, wanting to check the […]
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The president of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, today criticized the management has given the press to a leaked cable from WikiLeaks which speaks of the alleged financing his campaign with money from Venezuela. In the cable published on Monday by Colombian semani week , The Foreign Minister Ricardo Patiño mentioned as a possible link to get […]
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The Professional Drivers Federation of Ecuador, which rejects the reforms to the Traffic Law, made the following announcement this morning. “On 25 April, all drivers Ecuadorian put our arms and do not conduct our work tools,” said Ricardo Onofre, secretary of the Federation of Drivers. Read Article
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Irma Parra, Pika distribution manager in Riobamba, was arrested this morning by order of President Rafael Correa, called for making obscene signs and demonstrate for the not in the office when the president was in the promotional trailer for the Yes vote. According to the police, Police Corporal Chele Nelson Cortez, a member of the […]
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The U.S. government carefully examines the relationship between President Rafael Correa and the Ecuadorian media and the state of freedom of speech and press in the country. Several cables released by the website Wikileaks, which had access to this newspaper, newspapers aware of reports that the Embassy in Quito refers to the administration of Barack […]
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The deficit in the non-oil trade balance for Ecuador in January and February this year became the worst of the decade even dollar fell 32.6% over the first two months of 2010. That year saw the biggest bite of the last quarter century. This indicator was the first 2 months at $ 1091.71 million, while […]
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For the first days of July is expected to begin installing equipment or GPS satellite location in urban and intercity buses, taxis and heavy transport yellow or expressed in the country. This is provided for the executive director of the National Agency for Regulation and Control of Land Transportation, Traffic and Road Safety, Ricardo Antón. […]
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Financial ties to the government of Rafael Correa sought to weave with Iran led to a concern to the U.S. Embassy in Ecuador. The relationship became stronger since December 2008 with the signing of an agreement for any claims Iranians to Ecuador and the creation of a branch of Iran’s Central Bank (BCI). Read Article
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The president of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, confirmed that Spain offered a radar in 2008 to control the border after Colombia’s attack on a FARC base in its territory, but on condition that coordinates with the Colombian armed forces, so rejected it. The offer was disclosed today in a leaked cable from WikiLeaks to Ecuadorian newspaper […]
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United States saw the president of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, an “emotional immaturity” that led him to make decisions for the expulsion of two U.S. diplomats in 2009, according to a cable that country’s embassy in Quito revealed by the WikiLeaks site. Read Article
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This is a video of Chilean author Marta Harnecker discussing Rafael Correa, President of Ecuador. The presentation was at Simon Fraser University in Canada.
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Ecuador’s decision to forego potentially lucrative oil drilling in the Amazon forest in order to protect a biologically rich and fragile ecosystem is the focus of two documentaries at the Washington Environmental Film Festival. Read Article
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On Thursday the United States expelled the ambassador from Ecuador, in retaliation for Wednesday’s expulsion of the US ambassador from Ecuador. This now leaves the United States without ambassadorial relations in three South American countries – Bolivia and Venezuela being the other two – thus surpassing the Bush administration in its diplomatic problems in the […]
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Ecuador’s prospective tenth licensing round that will tender oil blocks in the southeast Amazon jungle is shaping up to be a battle between the government and local indigenous peoples, NGO Amazon Watch’s Ecuador program coordinator, Kevin Koenig, told BNamericas. Read Article
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Guayaquil Police are attemtping to take police uniforms off the streets that are being sold via clandestine means. It is believed that the sale of the uniforms are being delivered to criminal gangs who use them in the commission of crimes. Only police are permitted to purchase uniforms and from authorized outlets. Read Article
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The United States ordered Ecuador’s ambassador to leave the country on Thursday and scrapped a round of talks in retaliation for the expulsion of its ambassador in Quito. Read Article
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Chevron is divesting itself of overseas assets that could be used to enforce the $9.5 billion legal judgment against the oil giant for massive contamination of the Ecuadorian rainforest, lawyers for the Ecuadorian plaintiffs stated in a legal brief submitted to the Southern District of New York last week. Read Article
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The struggle between President Rafael Correa and the press has become more harsh in the wake of the prosecution to executives and editors of the newspaper El Universo. The main conflict revolves around a series of investigative reports published by this newspaper and others on governance in which detailed allegations of public corruption. Read Article
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The political leader, Wilson Merino adds to the list of victims of violent crime living in Ecuador, where mayors have also fallen. Merino, who was Secretary General of the Administration’s interim government and legislature Fabián Alarcón Radical Alfarista Front party was found dead after being reported missing 60 days ago. Read Article
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The activity of social media and journalists is becoming weaker and more restricted in Ecuador.In the first three months of the year, supporting media and journalists were attacks and pressures from different sectors of the country.The restrictions and insecurity include criminal prosecutions, threats, intimidation, insults, physical attacks. The violence reached a TV presenter who was […]
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One of the Ecuadorian political civil and accused of instigating the police revolt of September 30, 2010 was declared innocent. The citizen Manuel Araujo, a former Ecuadorean military officer, was arrested almost immediately after the events of that day and has been jailed for eight months. Read Article
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WIKILEAKS The Government of Ecuador decided to declare persona non grata to the U.S. ambassador in the country, Heather Hodges, and urged it to abandon Ecuadorian territory in the shortest time possible, reported the Foreign Minister Ricardo Patiño, who said that it is not expulsion. Read Article
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Ecuadorian Civilian Space Agency (EXA) announced yesterday that the satellite ‘Nee-01 Pegasus’ will be launched into orbit in 2012. The Ecuadorian astronaut Ronnie Nader who was prepared in Russia, made the official presentation of the satellite, noting that this is a work of Ecuadorian engineers accredited to the EXA. Read Article
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Corruption is widespread “in the ranks of the National Police of Ecuador and who was their commander, Jaime Aquilino Hurtado, used his power as the ultimate authority to extort body, accumulating money and property, facilitate the trafficking and obstructing investigations against corrupt colleagues. These are the conclusions drawn by the U.S. Embassy in Quito, citing […]
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ContiLifeCycle is expanding. Continental Tire Andina has opened a new retreading plant in Guayaquil, Ecuador, the country’s main port. The move is the latest step in Continental Tire the Americas LLC’s plan to expand its ContiTread distribution network in North and South America. Read Article
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The indigenous leader Humberto Cholango Ecuarunari representative, was elected early yesterday as president of Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE). The Vice President went to the Amazon leader José acacha. Read Article
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In a unique collaboration between scientists from the UK, Ecuador and Réunion, a new species of yeast has been discovered growing on the fruit of an unidentified and innocuous bramble collected from the biodiversity-rich Maquipucuna cloud forest nature reserve, near Quito, in Ecuador. Read Article
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Drug traffickers seek to circumvent the control measures with increasingly sophisticated techniques. Thus, the use of submarines, including two that were discovered last year in the country (one in the province of El Oro and Esmeraldas other) capable of carrying up to eight tons of cocaine into Mexico and United States forces government agencies to […]
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Following the Chevron-Texaco US oil company’s $9bn fine for environmental damage in Ecuador’s Amazon region, the indigenous Huaorani people there worry about surviving in the rainforest because of the possibility of more oil exploitation in the area, as the BBC’s Linda Pressly reports. Read Report
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The Protection of Rights of the Ministry of Interior and National Police rescued 31 Haitians, alleged victims of crimes of smuggling of migrants, reported the ministry. After several days of investigations, in an operation called “Dawn”, officers went to a house in the north of the capital where they located the citizens “who have entered […]
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FROM: REPORTERS WITHOUT BORDERS – LETTER TO PRESIDENT CORREA Mr. Rafael Correa Delgado President of the Republic Carondelet Palace Quito, Ecuador Dear President Correa, You have just brought two legal actions in quick succession against journalists. Reporters Without Borders, an international press freedom NGO, is very concerned about the consequences of these legal actions and […]
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The government plans to solve the problem within 10 days of the shortage of antiretrovirals for HIV / AIDS patients. They released the director of the National Programme for Prevention and Control of HIV / AIDS / STD of Ecuador, Luis Morales, who said that next week we already have the necessary provision. That “would […]
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The provinces of Loja, Los Rios, Guayas, Manabi and El Oro, were declared emergency due to lack of rain since February. The Ministry of Agriculture, along with the secretariats of Risk Management and Water within a Contingency Plan, adopted new preventive measures in those provinces. This is because, according to forecasts from the National Institute […]
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The Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE) on Saturday elected a new president, replacing Marlon Santi, who remained in office for four years. In Puyo, Pastaza Province, began this morning its annual conference attended by delegations from the three regions. Read Article
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he Ecuadorian lawyer Juan Pablo Sanz, one of the litigants in the case, Chevron Texaco, reported Wednesday that U.S. oil manipulates the facts related to a court ruling issued against Ecuador, and the purchase of judges in the (U.S.) thinks no liability for damages caused to Amazon for nearly three decades. “Chevron has long said […]
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Since 1984 is based in Quito, more than 25 years of experience in Ecuador and 35 as an actor. Christoph Baumann is married to actress Tamara Nabas with whom he has just carried out a project called “Tables on wheels”, which is based on a truck with a drop-scene, in which just go around the […]
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Some readers or viewers may consider domestic violence against women away to their reality because it occurs mainly in poor socio-economic classes, right? Definitely not unique to low socioeconomic levels. There are many professional women of high economic situation that cross but might be a bit more elusive to accept it. In these cases the […]
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The Unit for Combating Organized Crime (Ulco) on Sunday found 100 boxes of dynamite inside a truck whose destination is presumed were the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). As a result of operating three people were arrested. Read Article
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The parish priest of Llano Grande, Roberto Ruiz, was found dead yesterday afternoon in the room where slept inside the Immaculate Conception church in Quito. Police believe he was poisoned with scopolamine and that theft may have been the motive. Read Article
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Living in or thinking of moving to Ecuador – Get this book Anyone who is thinking of purchasing real estate on the coast of Ecuador should considere a report filed in 2010 at the World Conference on Climate Change in Cancun, Mexico. Raul Medina Santamaria(professor of hydraulic engineering-University of Cantabria) reported to the newspaper El […]
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In Ecuador, there are 10,020 daily tons of trash, that number only 952 are recycled and the remaining 9,068 tonnes (93%) are arranged in dumps or landfills, they confirmed María Auxiliadora Jacome, Director of Environmental Control Ministry of Environment. According to the official cities most garbage produced each day are Guayaquil and Quito, each with […]
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Since last Friday resolved that a complete shutdown of the mining works in the district of Portovelo-Zaruma, the economy of the inhabitants of the country’s main mining center began to falter. The paralysis that is strangling the economy of the Highlands, began to reject the closure of 37 mills in the industry. Read Article
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Mexican authorities have detained an in-law of top drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman who allegedly ran a transnational drug operation that reached as far as Ecuador. Suspect Victor Manuel Felix is both an in-law of Guzman and the godfather of one of the drug lord’s children. Read Article
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Two men battle to save gays and lesbians in Ecuador. One man uses his Bible and the belief that sexuality can be corrected. The other fights by using Ecuadorian law and a belief in respect for individual differences.
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President Rafael Correa said the government should have a representative in the agency responsible for regulating the content of the media, as the “primary victim” of the press in the country. Read Article
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